Jan. 30th, 2026

birdwatcher: (Professor Moriarty)
Sarah Talbi@indiandefencereview.com -- Physicists Say They May Have Found a Portal to a Fifth Dimension Where Dark Matter Could Be Hiding. Теперь учёным тоже будет, где спрятаться.
birdwatcher: (Professor Moriarty)
futurism.com -- Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, is sounding pretty conflicted about whether AI models can be conscious and have feelings.
birdwatcher: (Default)
futurism.com -- Sam Altman Says AI Will Cause Massive Deflation, Making Money Worth Vastly More.
Я думаю, это стратегия: потом скажут инвесторам, мол, ведь очевидно было, что мы шутили, не надо было воспринимать всё это всерьёз.
birdwatcher: (Leif Gram: Mr. Fix)
Laurent Hynes@mises.org -- Quantitative Finance Has a Rotten Foundation.
The intricate probabilistic methods of academic economics and their required mathematical erudition seem to bar entrance to those more intent on cultivating the techniques of causal realism. Yet such models ultimately rest upon a fundamental assumption concerning the nature of human action, the validity of which is hardly addressed within academia and whose ontological fallaciousness fatally undermines their applicability.